You can now navigate to the Project Builder from the Project Worklist.

You can now navigate to the Draft Workbench from the Project Worklist.

You can use an additional worklist of the objects added to your favorites.

You can use an additional worklist of the objects last accessed by you.

You have the option to add (and remove) projects, work breakdown structures, and networks as favorites.

The system synchronizes the Project Builder worklist with the list of last accessed objects and the favorites in the Project Worklist.

You can display additional date-related information of objects.

You can access a detailed view of object data, in addition to the tabular view.

You can use a BAdI for generic SAP List Viewer (ALV) enhancements.

Dates/Relationships

With this data set, you can do the following:

For more information, see Data Set: Dates and Relationships.

Activity Processing

With this data set, you can edit selected activity data related to the following:

You can also manually run a capacity availability check. For more information, see Data Set: Activity Processing.

Milestone Data

With this data set, you can access milestone data in an individual data set. This data set allows you to edit data of milestones for work breakdown structures (WBS) and activities. For more information, see Data Set: Milestone Data.

Material Components

With this data set, you can do the following:

For more information, see Data Set: Material Components.

PM/CS Order Dates

With this data set, you can display plant maintenance (PM) and customer service (CS) order that are assigned to activities as subnetworks in the project hierarchy of the Project Editor. You can edit selected header data of PM and CS orders related to scheduling and date planning. The Project Editor allows you to navigate to the display screens of the PM and CS order details. You have the option to copy PM/CS order duration and dates to the activity duration and constraints, respectively. You can schedule PM and CS orders individually or together with higher-level networks. You can analyze PM and CS order dates in tabular overviews by using exception highlighting, date comparison functions, and a graphical representation in the Gantt chart. For more information, see Data Set: PM and CS Order Dates.

The following data sets have been improved for usability and functional reasons:

The restriction to select other data sets with Status Data has been removed; you can now select this data set in combination with other data sets. For more information, see Data Set: Status Data.

The user interfaces of the Project Editor have been reworked for usability reasons.

You can trigger substitutions and validations for operative projects, in the Project Editor. For more information, see Substitution and Validation.

You can change data of several objects at the same time by using the Selective Mass Update function in tabular overviews.

You can display the status of an object from any data set by using the context menu.

You can use advanced date overviews that provide date comparison features or options for date exceptions, to monitor dates.

You can monitor dates in a basic Gantt chart.

You can create drafts from the entry screen of the Project Editor.

Users’ default authorizations for individual objects are now indicated in the Access Control List tab.

On the initial screen of the Project Editor, you can select or deselect all data sets by using the corresponding pushbuttons.

You can use Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for the following:

You can enter the dates of objects.

You can use date planning functions such as the copying, checking, and extrapolation of dates.

You can plan dates for PM and CS order headers that are assigned to activities.

You can copy dates from PM and CS orders to be used as constraints in activities.

You can also copy durations from PM and CS orders to activities.

You can use BAdIs to specify the rules for copying PM/CS order duration and dates to the activity duration and constraints, respectively.

You can schedule the basic dates of work breakdown structures, networks, activities, activity elements, milestones, and PM and CS orders. You can also schedule the forecast dates of work breakdown structures, networks, activities, activity elements, and milestones.

You can perform loop analyses for activity relationships. You can display and delete relationships, which form loops, on the Loop Analysis screen and proceed with the scheduling.

You can define scheduling parameters for networks.

You can perform a capacity availability check relevant to finite scheduling.

You can transfer basic dates to forecast dates.

You can transfer forecast dates to basic dates.

You can check activity dates within the project structure. You can also check activity dates for work breakdown structure elements (WBSEs).

To monitor dates and scheduling results across object types within the project, you can use the overall dates overview that provides options for date exception highlighting.

You can use a BAdI to specify additional conditions for dates exceptions.

By using the date comparison function, you can compare the current dates with the original dates. You can also use this function to compare the current dates with the last dates.

You can analyze dates in tabular overviews of individual object types by using exception highlighting and date comparison functions.

You can display and change dates and date-related data of project objects in a tabular area.

You can change dates and durations of certain objects, in the graphical and tabular areas.

You can define user-specific settings and manage variants related to the following:

You can display timescales based on multiple ranges of time.

You can use the print and print preview of the Gantt chart in the Project Editor.

You can use a BAdI to change user interface (UI) elements such as color, layout, fonts, lines, and nodes in the Gantt chart. In addition to this, you can use this BAdI to specify:

Partner data

Access control lists

Status data

Dates

Relationships

Activity processing

Milestone data

Plant maintenance and customer service order header dates

Short texts

You have options to compare the draft hierarchy with the operative project hierarchy to check whether the saving of the draft back to the operative project is prohibited because of hierarchical differences.

You can compare the draft hierarchy with the operative project hierarchy from the Draft Comparison screen, if the lead hierarchy is a draft.

You can display the draft comparison results in the following views:

After draft comparison, you can filter objects by status icons to analyze the results of the comparison.

You can create new drafts from the initial screen of the Project Editor.

The user interfaces of the Draft Workbench and the Draft Comparison screens have been reworked to include additional data sets and menu options.

Local drafts are encoded so that they cannot be edited outside the SAP system.

You can view a list of all drafts that are available for an object and its subordinate objects, by choosing Show All Drafts in the Draft Workbench.

You can delete drafts created by other users, if you have administrator authorizations.

You can activate a BAdI implementation that informs you about the existence of drafts when you change projects in any maintenance transaction.

Status data

Dates

Relationships

Activity processing

Milestone data

Plant maintenance and customer service order header dates

Short texts

You can use a BAdI to update the project cache in real time.

You can use a program to delete projects and independent networks that have exceeded their expiry dates, from the project cache.